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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcID2clYMXA
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2u9OzNcrOu
greatness is known to all.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZrX8N5NfK
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudzzYBfvhQ
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94H8QlxnK5
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGYju25p8j
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oRNr83RLB
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUzusL9iV0
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXqf3y3nzu
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7cvXqqqgc
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfxTgRn9be
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoXqMw2pyf
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tdWkuRc9N
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UlnBXM4OW
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0KsMZo9Uw
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRkBx9LWCv
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9mnUilS6J
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXt1HtoP3rN
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZagFAZIWJT
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlVALYrFd7
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojn39Rkqa5
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzr0SUMEns
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWxu8CtAXi
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBk2AWcD04
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpNbfKetjP
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTV06ivwVE2
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT3CAsPp9FE
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4jyDplxuh
He is a dangerous man.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxlbSvEgrZ
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIgOuJerM0
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXi7HlRPUgs
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDfpiy5jr7
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPaVIbpIP1h
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9bMMJqH93
starvation.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUJg96GpKI
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGddIb1FH3
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEXNlRNkYI
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGl9EGbOvuS
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhbyPfMCUgp
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsrER1s2gm
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGBKJksKDg
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyQiEyA1NW
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMazKYrVfw
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvRHr2TVwp
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpf5vxBbzsC
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPcQafSZS1
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9L8k8KIMr8
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUoml8Qem4
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfsU5TlF2V4
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMBfy423ve
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycidgssPNy
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡla8DLfEKXm
and dark continents waiting to be explored.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoU6smfoZQ
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKCFs2RYPM
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavtc4NRScu
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcAtgd6YWYI
advancing so do their means of exploring.
